Post #24528 by TikiMan on Wed, Feb 26, 2003 4:12 PM

On 2003-02-24 22:20, thechikitiki wrote:
Welcome mambo Tikiman. Laguna niguel, just moved from there to la. Did you ever make it over to the house2home nursery in LN? That's where I cut my tiki teeth.Fun.

Thanks! Yup, I remember the old H2H and their giant Easter Island Tiki made of fiberglass. I wanted the volcano, though they wouldn't sell it, and it was gone when they went belly up (but I got a great hanging stained-glass lamp with a bamboo design for 75% off retail).

Actually, I started getting into my love for tropical/tiki anything seven years ago on my first visit to Hawaii (Kauai). I loved the décor and everything, and I made it a major priority to re-create as much of it I could when I bought my first home. Then I discovered Oceanic Arts (by accident), and... well the rest is history.

My wife has been collecting Asian antiques for a few years now (we even have a two hundred year old Chinese opium pipe), and I have been collecting tribal mask and tropical plants for many years now, so when we bought our home, it turned into Bali meets the South Seas.

I oddly enough didn't even know there was a tiki following until I did a search and found some web sites (including this one).

Cheers!